Should young girls have access to morning-after birth-control pills?

“A federal judge on Friday ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make ‘morning-after’ emergency contraception pills available without a prescription to all girls of reproductive age and criticized the Obama administration for interfering with the process for political purposes.

“The ruling in a Brooklyn court is the latest step in the years-long legal saga over the pill known as ‘Plan B,’ a drug that has also sparked political and religious battles. Reproductive-rights groups cheered the decision as overdue, while anti-abortion and some religious groups condemned it.”